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The Best Place to Get Data About Customers? From Customers Themselves!

Published May 10, 2022

Just as making an outstanding meal takes the freshest, most flavorful ingredients, creating an exceptional marketing campaign starts with the newest, most accurate data. But what is the best way to get that data? You can purchase a mailing list and third-party data, but it’s […]

Tagged content marketing, cross-channel marketing, customer engagement, customer loyalty, customer relationships, customer surveys, data driven marketing strategies, direct marketing, marketing, marketing communications, multichannel marketing, multitouch marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing

“Do You Really Know Me?” From: Your Customer

Published March 9, 2022

To create genuinely personal communications, you need to know your customers. This requires more than knowing basics like name, address, and gender. It requires knowing more about who your customers are.

Let’s take an example from the world of sports. For example, when we think of hockey […]

Tagged content marketing, cross-channel marketing, customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer loyalty, customer relationships, direct mail, direct mail strategy, direct marketing, marketing, marketing communications, multi-touch marketing, multichannel marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing

Shoppers: How Brands Treat People Matters

Published November 18, 2021

How brands treat people during national crises like a global pandemic impacts shoppers’ purchase decisions. This means that even subtle elements in your direct mail, email, and newsletter messaging matter—a lot.

This is the finding of Global Web Index (GWI), one of the premier players in […]

Tagged brand awareness, content marketing, data driven marketing strategies, direct mail, direct mail design, direct mail strategy, direct marketing, email marketing, marketing, marketing communications, multichannel customer experience, multichannel marketing, multitouch marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing

Top Reasons Consumers Open Mail

Published June 3, 2021

The more you know about why the mail gets opened, the more you can tweak your campaigns for maximum effectiveness. Recipients’ top reason for opening any direct mail piece is that they are interested in the products or services you offer. But did you know […]

Tagged direct mail, direct mail design, direct mail statistics, direct mail strategy, direct mail success, direct mail trends, direct mailers, direct marketing, Mail, mail design, marketing, marketing communications, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing

Marketers Identify Their #1 Priority in the Next Five Years

Published April 27, 2021

If you had to name the top priority for marketers today, what would it be? If you said creating a positive Customer Experience (CX), you’d be right. Sure, everybody wants to increase sales, but without a good customer experience, that’s very difficult, if not impossible, […]

Tagged customer engagement, Customer Experience, customer loyalty, customer relationships, CX, data driven marketing strategies, direct mail design, mail design, multichannel customer experience, multichannel marketing, multitouch marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized envelopes, personalized marketing, variable data

Five “Best in Class” Marketing Elements

Published March 18, 2021

Want to be the best? Compete with the best. That’s a powerful motto, whether in sports or business. Here are five marketing strategies used by top marketers that you should be using, as well. Let’s take a look!

Top strategy #1: Break down the […]

Tagged accurate data, customer engagement, customer relationships, data driven marketing strategies, digital marketing, direct marketing, high-quality data, marketing, marketing communications, multichannel customer experience, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing, standardize data, variable data

The Power of Marketing Local

Published March 3, 2021

One of the most powerful consumer trends of
2020 has been the move to the suburbs. Yes, the ‘burbs. The suburbanization of
America is changing the way we live, work, and play.

This trend was in place before the COVID-19 pandemic, but the nationwide health crisis has […]

Tagged cross-channel marketing, data driven marketing strategies, digital marketing, direct mail, direct mail design, direct mail strategy, direct mail success, direct mailers, direct marketing, email marketing, mail design, marketing, marketing communications, multichannel marketing, multitouch marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing

Should You Be Personalizing? The Data Tells the Tale

Published February 2, 2021

Recently, McKinsey, a respected business research firm, had this to say about direct mail and email communications:

Customers decide very quickly—in a matter of seconds—whether they like your marketing message. Provide something relevant, and you’ve got a satisfied customer. Miss the mark, however, and they’re […]

Tagged cross-channel marketing, data driven marketing strategies, digital marketing, direct mail, direct mail design, direct mail strategy, direct mail trends, direct mailers, direct marketing, email marketing, marketing, marketing communications, multichannel marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing, variable data

3 Ways Personalization Benefits Your Non-profit Fundraising

Published November 10, 2020

Fundraising is the lifeblood of any nonprofit. If you want people to give to your mission, they need to know about your mission, care about that mission, and understand the difference you make in the world.

Personalizing
your communications helps achieve these goals. How? Because it […]

Tagged data driven marketing strategies, digital marketing, direct mail design, direct mail partners, direct mail strategy, direct mail success, direct mail trends, direct marketing, fundraising, marketing, marketing communications, nonprofit, nonprofit direct mail, personalization, personalize, personalized marketing

Personalization: It Doesn’t Have to Be Complicated

Published August 18, 2020

When it comes to personalization in marketing, both digital and print, are you still on the sidelines? Do you want to give personalization a try, but think it’s too complicated? It doesn’t have to be. Here are five ways to think about personalized marketing to […]

Tagged cross-channel marketing, data driven marketing strategies, digital marketing, drip marketing, marketing, marketing communications, multichannel marketing, personalization, personalize, personalized envelopes, personalized marketing